A DIVINER — a professional class, distinct from the verb nachash (see that entry): where nachash describes reading a specific omen, qosem names the trade itself, someone who does this for a living. It is the near-exact vocabulary of Deuteronomy 18:10-11's banned list -- diviner, soothsayer, augur, sorcerer, medium, necromancer -- Israel's own law naming the very professions Babylon and Canaan ran on. ⚠️ Jeremiah 27:9 stacks five of these categories in one breath -- prophets, diviners, dreams, soothsayers, sorcerers -- and dismisses all five together, which is the chapter's whole argument in miniature: whichever channel of hidden knowledge Judah trusted, exile was not on offer through any of them. The word resurfaces at Micah 3:11, where Jerusalem's own leaders 'divine for silver' -- the banned trade practiced for a fee by the people meant to have outlawed it. → first discussed at Jer 27:9